Bruce Allan

Artist, Curator, Event organiser, Researcher

My preference is to work across international boundaries, often collectively or in
partnership with other people. I investigate the appearance and impact of human
ideas, relationships and practices on each-other and on natural and man-made
landscapes and environments. I make images, objects, structures, installations and
events using natural, man-made and found materials that may be contextually
symbiotic

Biography

My preference is to work across international boundaries, often collectively or in
partnership with other people. I investigate the appearance and impact of human
ideas, relationships and practices on each-other and on natural and man-made
landscapes and environments. I make images, objects, structures, installations and
events using natural, man-made and found materials that may be contextually
symbiotic or divergent. My methods and applications include writing, text,
interventions, drawing, time-based digital recording and natural processes. I am currently co-curating Difference Screen, an evolving project of international artists' moving image reflecting on changing realities through portraits of people and place. It is traveling across 20 countries over two years.

2000 a meditation on the relationship of iron to blood and stone Balance 2000, Hanover, Germany

2000 Land, Space and Place Sofiero Castle, Sweden

1999 60 seconds Kingsgate Gallery, London

1999 Passion Gasworks Gallery, London

1999 Scale Kingsgate Gallery, London

1999 Spacex 21 Spacex Gallery, Exeter

1999 The Equinox Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth

1998 20/20 Angel Row, Nottingham

1998 Grow The Garden, Bristol

1998 Out of Place (site interventions), Bristol

1997 20/20 Kingsgate Gallery, London

1997 Arnolfini Multiple Commissions Arnolfini, Bristol

1997 Location Usher Gallery, Lincoln

1997 Thanks Hiroshima, Japan

1995 Natural Settings Chelsea Physic Garden, London

1994 Exposition Mivart Mivart Studios, Bristol

1994 Silk Road Caravanserai, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia

1992 Fifty Ideas City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol

1992 Not For Sale 20 / 21, Lower Park Row, Bristol

1991 Galerie Barz Hanover, Germany

1990 Sommer Atelier Messe, Hannover, Germany

1989 Altes Und Neues Galerie Barz, Hanover, Germany

1989 Artspace and Sculpture Shed Arnolfini, Bristol

1989 Installationen Objekte Eisfabrik, Hanover, Germany

1987 Bristol Hanover Art Show Cannons Marsh, Bristol

Curated projects

2013-15 Co-curator Difference Screen an evolving project of international artists' moving image reflecting on changing realities through portraits of people and place. It is traveling across 20 countries over two years. www.differencescreen.net

2010 Co-curator of exhibitions, upstairs at the George, Newnham on Severn, Gloucestershire